Portable wardrobe.



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PATENT OF ICE.

ABEL MAGUI AND MICHAEL COOPER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PORTABLE WARDROBE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 753,721, dated March 1, 1904.

Application filed June 2'7, 1903.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ABEL MAGUI and MI- GHAEL COOPER, citizens of the United States of America, residing in the borough of Manhattan, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improved PortableWard robe, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to portable wardrobes, and has for its object to improve the construction of such wardrobes to enable them to be readily transported, to allowthem to be extended according to the amount of clothing they are to hold, to make them sightly in appearance, and to provide means for preventing moths or the like from damaging clothing hung therein.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a wardrobe according to this invention. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2, .Fig. 1. Fig. 2 is an end view with the curtains removed. Fig. 3 is a front view with the curtains removed. Fig. 4 is a back view, drawn to a larger scale, with the curtains and sheet detached. Fig. 5 is a plan view of Fig. 4:, but with the curtain in place. Figs. 6 and 6 are detail sectional views showing a latch for preventing the withdrawal of its rod R and Fig. 7 is a plan view, partly broken away, of a modification.

A garment-carrying support A, of metal, wood, or suitable framing, is supplied with a number of hooks it, depending from its lower surface. To the back of this support we attach a long sheet S by hooks and eyes or equivalent fastenings f. Long pockets P may be sewed into the sheet, which are adapted to contain moth-balls or the like. Near the top of each side edge of the sheet fastenings-Z2 b are attached, while to the lower corners other engaging fastenings 0 c are secured to engage with them to form a sort of bag looped around the garments g,which are hung on the hooks h. A chain a; may be secured in the mid-position of the lower edge to hold the bag up at the center. This bag-like construction prevents any garments from falling to the floor, should they become detached from the hooks, and also makes a receptacle for such articles as cannot be hung up.

Eyes 1 and a hook 4 in connection with a Serial No. 163,382. (No model.)

pulley p may serve to hang the wardrobe from I a hook, picture-nail, or the like, as shown inz interfitting rods 1* r to the back of the support adapted to be swung into a plane parallel to the wall at right angles to the length of the support.

To give the entire wardrobe a sightly appearance, we provide curtains O O of any suitable stuff. The curtain O has one end hooked into the eye 3 and is gathered on a U-shaped wire rod R, sliding in grooves g in the support A and hooked at its other end to the front edge of the support A. The curtain O is fastened to the back of the support, gathered onto a similar U-shaped rod R and also onto a rod R parallel to the front of the support A. upon which it may be drawn backward and forward by a draw-cord (Z to cover or uncover the sheet or bag and garments behind it. The draw-cord is shown run through eyes 6 e on the support. The curtains are so gathered onto their U-shaped rods that they will be drawn tight in the extended positions of such rods, and thus prevent the entire removal of the rods from the support, but at the same time to allow the rods to be pushed in to take up less room. The front parallel rod R is run through holes 5 in the support A to allow it motion from and toward the support, according as there are many or few garments within.- To prevent its complete withdrawal, springs s s are provided which engage in notches 6,

cut in the rod near its ends, as shown in Figs.

6 and 6.

As shown in Fig. 7, we may slot each end of the support A at s and use one piece of bended wire to hold a curtain to cover both the sides and front. By turning in the ends of the wire, as shown, the inner ends act as runners,

port A by their weight, we pivotally secure two be brought beneath and up in front of the garments, and means for securing it in this position, whereby the garments are permitted to protrude at the sides of said sheets, in combination with curtains and extensible rods mounted on said supports on which they are mounted, said curtains adapted to cover the sheet and garments, substantially as described.

2. A portable wardrobe, comprising amain support for garments, a protecting-curtain therefor, U-shaped rods at the end of the support, both legs of the U being in substantially the same horizontal plane, adapted to carry the curtain on both sides of the U to form an inclosure within the U, and means for extending the rods at either side and beyond said main support, substantially as described.

3. A portable wardrobe, comprising a support for garments, U-shaped rods, both legs of the U being in substantially the same horizontal plane, and adapted to slide in and to extend beyond said support, a curtain hung on both legs of said U-shaped rod, and means for preventing the entire withdrawal of the rod, substantially as described.

4:. A portable Wardrobe, comprising a support for garments, a protecting-sheet therefor attached to said support, U-shaped rods adapted to slide in the ends of the support, and to extend beyond it, a rod parallel to the support, and mounted thereon, and curtains on the parallel rod and extending around upon each of the U-shaped rods to form an inclosure within the U, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof We have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ABEL MAGUI.

MICHAEL COOPER. Witnesses:

H. M. GRUNDER, CHARLES DAHL. 

